County: Dublin Site name: CRUMLIN: St Mary’s Church
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0465
Author: Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 712014m, N 731632m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.323088, -6.318606
Testing was carried out in response to planning conditions relating to a proposal for the development of 48 apartments adjacent to St Mary’s Church, Crumlin (SMR 18:38(01), church, and 18:38(02), graveyard). The church and graveyard were bounded by a circular stone wall (18:38(04)), which may have related to an earlier enclosure. The proposed develop-ment site is to the east of this enclosure. The site is also to the south and south-east of a medieval motte site identified on early OS 6-inch maps. A modern church lies over the site of the motte, and no trace of it survives above ground. The proposed entranceway for the apartments runs between the two churches, and the apartment blocks are planned for the area behind the churches, which formerly contained a school. The testing was carried out to follow up testing on the site by Ruth Elliot in June 2001 (Excavations 2001, No. 347), in which no features or finds of archaeological significance came to light.
This summary was prepared on the basis of a further four trenches and an extension to Trench 1 of the 2001 report. This phase of trenching did not reveal any features or finds of archaeological significance.
13 Anglesea Street, Dublin 2
